Alan Pelaez Lopez
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From “Zapotec Crossers (Or, Haiku I Write Post-PTSD Nightmares)” by Alan Pelaez Lopez
V.Itzel, five, plays dead.Border patrol agents seeher body—they leave. Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez is the author of “The X in Latinx is a Wound, Not a Trend” (ColorBloq 2018) and the chapbook to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press, 2020) among other poems and cultural criticisms. Their poem, “Zapotec Crossers (or, Continue reading
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National Poetry Month 2025
I don’t remember my first poetry book. Not even the first poem I read, though I imagine both might have been something written by Shel Silverstein. I have come to believe that Silverstein’s poetry is the gateway drug for most of us. Though despite not remembering where it started, poetry has become a major part Continue reading
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